Son: Doc who delivered Obama would’ve been proud (Telegraph)

The gynecologist who delivered Barack Obama would have been proud, his son told London’s Telegraph newspaper.

With the release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate Wednesday came news that Dr. David Sinclair welcomed Obama into the world at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu.

According to the Telegraph report, Sinclair died in 2003, a year before Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate and well before he became a national figure.

Speaking with the paper, the doctor’s son Karl Sinclair said he was “floored” by the news, and that his father would have been pleased to hear it.

“I was floored when I heard this,” Mr Sinclair told the Telegraph. “I’m a Barack supporter so it made me proud, and it would have made my dad proud. …

“He delivered tons of babies, there weren’t too many gynecologists around in those days. He was a very humble guy, and the type of guy who, if the patient couldn’t pay, he would deliver anyway. We’re going to have a big family celebration. It’s a big day for our family.”